SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143586, 26 August 1911, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

PALMERSTON SESSIONS. Per; Press Associatibn. PALMERSTON N., August 25. Bendix ' Christensen , sued George Green for negligent driving of a motor’car and severely injuring plaintiff, who was claiming £O3O general 1 damages for 1 injury to health., and £75 special damages. The jury brought in a, verdict of special damages £75 and general damages £275. .The plaintiff was riding a bicycle along the road in Palmer-, stoh. Defendant;was driving a 1 motor- ; car with a bicycle in the back of the car, the wheel protruding six inches over the side of the oar. The wheel struck plaintiff in the small of tbj hack, knocking him down and severe! injuring him. AUCKLAND SESSIONS. AUCKLAND, August 26. In the Supreme Court William Sherry, was charged with : assaulting .Martin Monaghan and causing ■ actual ■ bodily harm. The ease had peculiar features. Sherry found Monaghan , in., company with his wife, after having 'warned Sherry to. cease his attention. He lammed Monaghan into insensibility, his face being so disfigured !■ as to bo, unrecognisable. Monaghan has been.in J’SSpitsOfcE The jhfy m turned a verdict' of not , guilty, an! Sherry was discharged.